Eastern House Portland House

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PORTLAND STREET 698-1/32/307 (South East side) No.103 Portland House

GV II

Includes: Nos.40 TO 46 Eastern House PRINCESS STREET. Shipping warehouse, now offices, club, etc. c.1870-80. Probably iron-framed, with cladding of red brick in Flemish bond, sandstone dressings, slate roof. Trapeziform plan on corner site, with loading at rear. Eclectic style. Five storeys with basement and attic, 3 bays, symmetrical, with stone-banded pilasters and bracketed cornice to ground floor, some stone bands to upper floors, moulded terracotta panels between 2nd and 3rd floors, plain frieze interrupted in the centre, steeply-pitched roof with hipped gable in the centre finished with a finial. Ground floor has square-headed doorway with moulded surround and plain frieze with attached lettering "PORTLAND HOUSE", flanked by pairs of segmental headed windows over basement openings; 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors have 3-light windows with stone mullions, those at 1st and 2nd floors of the centre in a segmental oriel with a carved panel between floors, segmental-headed lights to the upper floor, dentilled cornice and brick parapet, those at 1st floor of the outer bays with pilaster mullions and segmental pediments to the centre light, and those at 3rd floor segmental-headed with keystones; pairs of 1-light windows to 4th floor; flat-roofed dormers over the outer bays; gable chimneys. Left return (40 to 46 Princess Street), 7 bays in matching style, symmetrical, with hipped gables to the 2nd and 6th bays and square-headed loading bay entrance in the centre. Rear and interior not inspected. Forms group with No.101 (q.v.) on opposite corner of Princess Street; and with Nos 105 and 107, 109 and 111, and 113 to 119 to the right (q.v.), together comprising a complete block of former shipping warehouses.

Listing NGR: SJ8417097844